December 22, 2010

I see this trailer every year, and every year I say I'm going to take a photo. Tonight was the night. The vendor went into it and closed the door so I could see the whole mural thang. I think the painted Santa is going to give me nightmares tonight. Trust me, the pics are better blurry. I mean that in a good way! Thanks Christmas tree guy!

December 20, 2010

I was given a car! It's a 1999 Buick Regal with only 61,000 miles on it! It's bouncy and fast and I call it the Regal Beagle. Thanks universe! Here are some photos taken from the warm and cozy Beagle today.
I can't get enough of the Hite sign. Let it snow baby! Yeaaaaaaaaah!
It's across the street from the Allen House on Washington Street.

I took some family members to the Mapparium at the Mary Baker Eddy Library on Mass Avenue near Berklee. We'll never forget it. GO THERE! Great multi-media show. It's cheap. Beautiful exhibit and exhibit space. Walk around Boston and look at the Christmas lights.

December 17, 2010

It's a Scopitonefrom the
early 60s by a group calledThe Condors. Great version
of Ain't That Just Like Me!
Another by The Searchers.
Yet another by The Hollies.
Put on yer bikini and shake it!
Love the guys' entrances!Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!

December 15, 2010

I took a digital illustration class this semester and our final project was
to illustrate a holiday card. I went the "this too shall pass" route. There
are many things I love about Christmas, particularly the Phil Spector Christmas album from 1963featuring Darlene Love, but once those jewelry store commercials start.... Ugh. Reeeeeeeeeooooow! Darlene Love was lead singer forThe Blossomswho were the backup singers on Shindig!Watch The Blossoms get blown away by Aretha at 1:40.

December 13, 2010

One of the grooviest things my dad did was to hang a swing from a really high tree branch in our back yard. He would give us the most powerful pushes which enabled us to touch branches with our feet. My sister and her husband have done the same thing. It's the simple things that bring such joy. The expressions on my friends' son's faces say it all! Hang a swing in your yard and create joy and great memories for your kids... and joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea!Weeeeeeeeeeee!

December 8, 2010

I love when you're watching a film or tv show and you recognize an actor in a role before they were famous. Here's Jerry, the next door neighbor of the Petrie's (and Millie's husband) in The Wild Oneas part of Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang! Here's Robert Duvall in an early 60s Twilight Zone episode. William Shatner on the Twilight Zone.

December 5, 2010

this song was inspired by the Rat in Kenmore Square in Boston. You'd think that if the show was going to have peeps dancing with her on stage, they'd get people who could actually dance! Nimrods I tell ya!

singing...

The B-52s

audiences

Jerry and the Pacemakers

Superb live performance and great audience footage of a gaggle of girlfriends led by the tough, dark-haired bouff chick starting at 0:45.

let's dance again!

coolest theme song

coolest theme song

solid man, 1968

coolest theme song

groove on that wah-wah!

ahhhhhhhh!

Jan and Dean, 1964

She's gonna get a ticket now sooner or later 'cause she can't keep her foot off the accelerator. My sisters had this 45 and I played it a zillion times. Great audience footage! Whooohoooooooooo!

groovy footage...

from a 1965 Top of the Pops featuring Herman's Hermits. Love watching the kids get pushed out of the way by the moving riser he's standing on... especially the girl looking all suave at 1:19! Waaaaaaaaaah!

coolest theme song

dorothy moore singing...

chicks deejaying

audiences

Germany's Beat-Club, 1966

shake it!

audiences

eddie cochran

Check out this hilarious stage design and how the TV steps push out and the bleachers come forward! This is from 1958-59 on Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beech-nut Show. It was sponsored by Beech-nut gum and obviously gave out free gum samples because everyone is chewing! The "IFIC" on the buttons the kids are wearing is short for the Beech-nut slogan, which was "Beech-nut FLAVOR-IFIC gum." Notice the kid winking at 1:17, I bet it's a signal to his parents. It looks like he's there with his older sister and best friend.

whiskey a go go

audiences

everly brothers in 1960

Here are the Everly Brothers on the Saturday Night Beech-nut Show from 1960. I love how they stroll in front of the bleachers singing to the kids. They were incredible!